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"Sex, Love, and Letters" by Judith G. Coffin wins UCLA History's 2022 Eugen Weber Book Award

2/24/2022

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Congratulations Judith G. Coffin!

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/news/sex-love-and-letters-by-judith-g-coffin-wins-ucla-history-s-2022-eugen-weber-book-award
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Distinguished Woman philosopher - Peg Simons

1/7/2022

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We were very pleased to learn that our long time member Peg Simons has won the Distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2021! This is a huge honor and we are all delighted by this news.
Congratulations, Peg!

Please find the announcement below.
 
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The Steering Committee of the Eastern Society for Women in Philosophy is delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Woman Philosopher Award is Prof. Margaret Simons, Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Edwardsville.  The selection committee writes:
Margaret (Peg) Simons was one of the founders of feminist philosophy as an academic discipline and of the journals, societies, and conferences that have supported women's participation in both professional philosophy and women's studies. Peg Simons has devoted her philosophical career to establishing Simone de Beauvoir as an important philosopher in her own right, changing not only how Beauvoir is read but also how Sartre's *Being and Nothingness *is read.
Prof. Simons will be honored at an ESWIP-sponsored session at the Virtual portion of the Eastern APA Meeting on Thursday, Jan. 13 from 11 - 12:50 EST.
(Registration for the Meeting covers both in-person and virtual sections; instructions for accessing sessions will be provided after registration.)

Louise Antony
Anna Bjurman Pautz
Haley Schilling
Esha Sendchaudhuri
Charlotte Witt
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Le voyage de Simone De Beauvoir à Joigny

11/18/2021

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L'histoire de l'accident de voiture de Simone de Beauvoir, par Tiphaine Martin


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"The Pessimism Problem in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe et La vieillesse"

11/18/2021

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Congratulations Emma McNicol!
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The Australian Society for French Studies and the Australian Journal of French Studies are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2021 ASFS-AJFS Postgraduate Essay Prize, Emma McNicol of Monash University. Emma’s essay entitled “The Pessimism Problem in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe et La vieillesse ».
https://australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/.../winner.../
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Two programs on Beauvoir on BBC

11/18/2021

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1: "Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex"
Shahidha Bari and her guests consider her role in contemporary philosophy and Lauren Elkin describes translating a newly discovered novel The Inseparables.
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Kathryn Belle, Skye Cleary and Kate Kirkpatrick.

2: "Afterwords: Simone de Beauvoir"
Through archive from 1949 onwards and through the words of those who knew her (such as the writer and former diplomat Claudine Monteil who lives within sight of de Beauvoir's grave) and those who've studied her work (the philosopher and de Beauvoir biographer Kate Kirkpatrick, Professor Ursula Tidd of Manchester University and American philosopher Kathryn Sophia Belle), an intimate, nuanced portrait of Simone de Beauvoir emerges - a woman who embraced the 'matter of being a human being' and modelled new ways of engaging ethically with the world.


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Prix Simone-de-Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes 2021

10/6/2021

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le 25 Septembre, se tenait la 14e remise du Prix Simone-de-Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes.
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Crée en 2008, et soutenu par la Fondation des Femmes, le Prix Simone-de-Beauvoir récompense les personnes qui, par leurs actions ou leurs œuvres, participent à la promotion de la liberté des femmes.
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Cette année, l'écrivaine franco-rwandaise Scholastique Mukasonga a été mise à l'honneur pour l'ensemble de son œuvre. Découvrez par exemple "Un si beau diplôme !" récit autobiographique dans lequel elle évoque son combat pour obtenir un diplôme, suite à l'exil que lui imposa le génocide Rwandais.
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POdcast: We are not born Submissive, with Manon Garcia

9/19/2021

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Manon Garcia talks about her recently translated book here. 

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POdcast: "Penser les futurs féministes"

8/22/2021

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Le 100e épisode de La Poudre est sorti ! Enregistré aux Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco le 18 juin 2021, ses invitées sont les philosophes et chercheuses Manon Garcia, Sandra Laugier et Éléonore Lépinard.
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Alors que depuis plus d’un an, l’incertitude règne en maîtresse et que le climat politique se raidit, comment penser le futur ? Comment opter entre utopie et dystopie ? Lauren Bastide a tendu son micro à trois immenses penseuses pour tenter d’apporter quelques réponses : les philosophes Manon Garcia et Sandra Laugier ainsi que la sociologue Éléonore Lépinard. Ensemble, elles se penchent sur ce que le féminisme peut pour la philosophie et inversement (09:25), mais aussi en quoi il est positif de voir la place qu’il prend dans les disciplines telles que la philosophie dans ces temps où toute une partie des sciences sociales est menacée (19:37). Elles explorent en quoi la pensée du care ou encore l’écoféminisme pourraient apporter des éléments concrets pour penser des politiques publiques plus égalitaires et durables (32:33) mais constatent aussi la présence de nombreux obstacles et résistances contre ces futurs possibles (46:18). Dans le moment historique que nous sommes en train de vivre (50:00), la grande question reste de savoir comment toucher les personnes en position de privilège pour qu’elles se joignent au mouvement (51:29). Si elles oscillent entre optimisme et pessimisme (1:14:05), elles nous offrent ici de nombreuses pistes pour poursuivre le travail amorcé et défricher de nouveaux champs (1:06:45).
Pour écouter leur fascinant échange en entier, rendez-vous au bout de ce lien https://open.spotify.com/episode/27ZZSx89J36fIYcZWRCfXt...
Vous pouvez également écouter cet épisode sur SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/nouvelles-ecoutes/la-poudre-episode-100-penser-les-futurs-feministes?in=nouvelles-ecoutes/sets/la-poudre, sur Apple podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/.../%C3.../id1172772210..., sur Deezer https://www.deezer.com/fr/show/52945, sur Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nouvelles-ecoutes/la-poudre ou encore sur le site de Nouvelles Écoutes www.nouvellesecoutes.fr/la-poudre
Et pour profiter de trois ouvrages pour aller plus loin après l’écoute de l’épisode, rendez-vous sur notre site de recommandations littéraires #LaPoudreLit https://nouvellesecoutes.fr/la-poudre-lit/
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Conversation with Meryl Altman about her book "beauvoir in time"

8/21/2021

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Wonderful podcast with Lillian Calles Barger and Meryl Altman about Meryl's newest book, HERE.

"Meryl Altman's new book Beauvoir in Time, published by Brill Rodopi Press (2020), situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) in its historical context and responds to criticism that muddles what she actually said about sex, race and class. She takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work today’s feminists find problematic: the characterizations of the frigid woman and lesbians, the analogy of race and class that obscures Black and working-class women and her examples drawn from white middle-class experience. Charged with ethnocentrism, her contribution is distorted by not considering her place and time. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside expansive criticism, Altman shows that what appears as a problem for feminist theory is best understood by a full consideration of Beauvoir’s engagement with Freudian, Marxist and anticolonial thinkers. Extremely helpful in understanding the place of The Second Sex within international feminist theory, Altman offers insights into how Beauvoir is still relevant in the age of intersectionality and identity politics. Meryl Altman is Professor of English and Women's Studies at DePauw University. 
Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her most recent book is entitled The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press, 2018). Her current writing project is on the intellectual history of women and the origins of feminism seen through the emblematic life and work of Simone de Beauvoir.

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Philosophy Book Club: The Ethics of Ambiguity, by Simone de Beauvoir

5/18/2021

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Jamie Lombardi and Massimo Pigliucci are joined by their friend and colleague Skye Cleary for an in-depth discussion of one of the most important books on existentialism: Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity.
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